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ZVDT - Managed Deployment

The customers want to a ZVDT managed deployment from provisioning tools. Something similar to what ZD&T has in place today. The idea is to avoid typos and mistakes using as much automation as possible.
over 2 years ago in Z Development and Test Environment 1 Not under consideration

External security manager (ESM) should be the only way to secure the product. The internal security feature should not be provided as default. The product should not be operative without any security.

It will help ensure our mainframe sites must comply with the internal security audit standards.
over 2 years ago in IBM Z OMEGAMON AI for CICS / Installation 1 Not under consideration

UNISON_SCHED_IA value be the LOCAL time (NOT GMT TIME) of z/OS

The UNISON_SCHED_IA value shown in the JOBLOG of an operation run on a FTA that is DIRECTLY attached to the E2E server (NO MDM used) is going to be the GMT time (NOT LOCAL TIME) of z/OS when the job is submitted. The JOBLOG will show the correct ...
over 2 years ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 1 Not under consideration

Exit issuing WTO. Add exit or message to existing sense table operation

Sometimes CICS users get hung up and results in sense code 0805000B. WTO generation is for alerts To be sent
over 4 years ago in IBM CL/SuperSession for z/OS / Runtime 3 Not under consideration

Epilog/IMS Space Warning Parameter required

The Epilog/IMS Datastore filled up without any warning.As requested in the PMR, a WARNING parameter should be implemented in Epilog/IMS, like it is in Epilog/zOS
about 7 years ago in IBM OMEGAMON for IMS on z/OS / Product functionality 1 Not under consideration

CICS TS and ThreadSafe

Our customer suggested that CICS should have a trap for non threadsafe commands (if it doesn't already have). For instance: if a program issues an OPEN, READ, DISPLAY COBOL command, CICS should abend the transaction and send a ABEND CODE indicatin...
over 9 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 3 Not under consideration

automount aws files on OS request

Implement an automatic mount function of aws tapes on awstape device driver. it should be possible to feed the virtual tape drive with scratch tapes without physical awsmount intervention.
over 4 years ago in Z Development and Test Environment 1 Not under consideration

DASD unit with no mounted file should be not bve seen as ready in OS

ZD&T allows to define DASD Units that have no associated file in the host filesystem behind. This is necessary since the device map does not allow for dynamic changes. All devices (UCBs) must be defined Right from the beginning otherwise they ...
over 4 years ago in Z Development and Test Environment 2 Not under consideration

Move CICS LSR Pools above the bar

We would like to see the LSR pools moved above the bar for CICS. This will allow us to allocate more number of buffers which will reduce physical I/O
about 7 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

Dynamic invocation of Fault Analyzer from IDZ Debug

The users would expect Fault Analyzer to be invoked dynamically when debugging under IDZ Debug and an Abend occurs. It would be an expected continuation of the Debug process.
over 2 years ago in Debug for z/OS 1 Not under consideration